Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018

Captain Disillusion
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A comedic talk by VFX debunker Captain Disillusion at the Blender Conference 2018 on using Blender to make his videos. It includes an extended, jokey takedown of Blender's then-notorious interface.

HN people call it an essential, hilarious Blender watch for inspiration, and credit its interface critique with possibly nudging the big UI changes in Blender 2.8.

“this is a must watch for inspiration and laughs”
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9 comments from Hacker News

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@lathiat2022 · in “Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course”
I can’t give you a good tutorial but this is a must watch for inspiration and laughs: “Captain Disillusion: World’s Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018” ▶ this video Note for after: The UI has apparently been fixed
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@hombre_fatal2019 · in “Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M”
Great post. An essential Blender video to watch is Captain Disillusion's presentation at Blender Conf: ▶ this video
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@lathiat2025 · in “Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO”
Captain Disillusion did a great breakdown (diss :) of that: ▶ this video (21m10s on for ~5 mins)
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@lathiat2024 · in “Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]”
One of my favourite talks: ▶ this video
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@xmprt2021 · in “Blender 3.0”
I really enjoyed this talk by Captain Disillusion at the Blender Conference 2018 where he goes over some of that - ▶ this video
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@lathiat2020 · in “Blender 2.91”
Some would say this amazing diss by Captain Disillusion at BlenderCon had something to do with the major interface changes in Blender 2.8. The entire presentation is hilarious but for the interface related bit I've linked to 21m15s here: ▶ this video
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@theclaw2019 · in “Show HN: Make a video of any word forming out of candy”
For those not aware Captain Disillusion is an impressively well produced youtube series mimicking the vibe of 90's kids TV, but for an adult audience. The Captain uses Blender for the 3D effects in his videos, and did a great presentation at the Blender conference last year [0]. The type of effect used to create these candy words is covered in the "Marble Sorting Machine" video link [0] ▶ this video
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@anonymfus2018 · in “Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer Live at Blender Conference 2018”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@PetitPrince2024 · in “Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]”
Also of interest for HN crowd: he's a enthusiast Blender user, see ▶ this video
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